Hitler Figure Problems

I wasn’t going to report on how the waxworks museum Madame Tussauds – who create lifelike wax replicas of people and display them – opened a branch in Berlin and courted controversy by displaying a diorama including Hitler, because I am conscious of not flooding the blog with WW2 related items, but the story had a little twist in the end and I have relented. As stated above, Tussauds apparently felt Hitler had played a role in German history so sadly significant that displaying a Hitler figure outweighed the grave concerns felt by many Germans at “his” presence. There had been widespread condemnation. Security guards were positioned so people couldn’t take photographs of themselves alongside Hitler, as is common with other effigies. However, only a few minutes after the museum opened for the first time, a man entered the diorama and tore the head from the Hitler figure in protest. Yahoo has some pictures of what the display looked like before (top left).